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Grand Prairie council directs staff to obtain Housing Finance Corporation records after questions over property purchases
Summary
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Curt Johnson moved and council approved a directive for the city manager to obtain and review all permanent records from the Housing Finance Corporation after public concern about two recent property purchases and a resident97Harold Willis97raised unpaid-bill issues tied to a buyer.
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Curt Johnson read a statement at the Grand Prairie City Council meeting and moved that the city manager99s office immediately obtain and review all permanent documents, records and communications from the Housing Finance Corporation related to the recent purchase of Prairie Gates Community Apartment Complex Phases 1 and 2. The council approved the motion.
Johnson told the council the issue centers on trust and fiscal stewardship, saying the housing finance committee99s recent purchases raised "serious questions about whether that trust has been honored." He said the committee purchased two properties for a man identified in the meeting as Rodney DeBond even though, Johnson said, DeBond "still owes the city about a hundred thousand in unpaid water bills currently in…
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